1. Introduction
    

    As we know that the brain in infant is being to develop or change when the child start to walks, talks, runs, and smiles. The infant began life as a single cell and in nine month the infant born with a brain and nervous system that about 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons. In addition at birth the infant has all of the neurons.

2. Some brain development facts:



• At birth, the newborn’s brain is about 25% of its adult weight.
• By the second birthday, the brain is about 75% of its adult weight.
• Before the child is born, all the nerve cells is being formed. In addition, the nerve cells are unconnected together.
• From the time the child is born, his brain continually strive to connect the wires.
• Every time the infant is held, or play with a toy the nerves make a connection
• During the beginning years of life the connection or wires are connecting at an amazing speed
• During the third and fourth month of year the wiring is developed a lot.
• Until about 8 months of age, many things the child can do with his own, for example:
1. He looks seriously in any thing that attract him, so we can called him looker.
2. He shows his curiosity in every thing that interest him, such as a toy, program show, and the clothes that his mother wear
• In the first table you can see how you can develop the four educational foundations in the infant; vision, feeling, language and movement
• In the second table you can see how the cognitive skills and socio-emotional & personality develops in infancy

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